What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
“I wanted to change the way people of color were seen across the United States. I wanted America...
Annie Lillian Evans, who would later become the famed classical singer Lillian Evanti, was the first African American...
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the...
Whitney Houston, singer and actress, has sold close to 100 million albums worldwide during her lifetime. Her recognitions...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, during the Civil War. As the author...
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the world’s first immortal human cells. Lacks was born on August 18, 1920, in...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley, nicknamed the “Sunshine super girl” is an Australian former World No. 1 female tennis player....
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,”...
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. She is best remembered today as the singing voice...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
